Wharton Commencement Speaker to Share How the MBA Could Save His Life
The following post has been republished in its entirety from original source clearadmit.com.
David Fajgenbaum, MD, MSc, has been working toward his MBA as if his life depends on it. Because it does. On Sunday, in his commencement address to his classmates at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, he will share just why he believes a graduate management education can be the difference between life and death.
Fajgenbaum was diagnosed with idiopathic Multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD) in 2010, a rare and poorly understood hematologic disorder in which the immune system becomes activated and causes cells to release inflammatory proteins that ultimately shut down the body’s organs. At the time of his diagnosis, he was in his third year of medical school at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. He took a year’s leave and underwent aggressive chemotherapy, which initially was unsuccessful. Over a six-month period, he was hospitalized for four and a half months and even read his last rites. But ultimately the chemo helped put the disease into remission, and Fajgenbaum returned to complete his MD. He then proceeded straight into the MBA program at Wharton. Continue reading…
Wharton Announces Winner of the First Business Plan Competition Social Impact Prize
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announced that the inaugural Wharton Business Plan Competition Social Impact Prize has been granted to Susli Lie WG’14, team leader of Dana Cita, a loan platform targeting Indonesian youth. The Wharton Business Plan Competition, which is managed by Wharton Entrepreneurship, initiated the $10,000 prize this year. This new prize is awarded to the Semifinalist team that most strongly demonstrates social impact in their business model
Dana Cita means “Aspiration Fund” in Indonesian, and this education lending venture aims to empower Indonesian youths by providing loans to aspiring students, as well as connecting them to future careers. “Millions of youths in Indonesia, where I am from, aspire to a better future,” says Ms. Lie. “Through Dana Cita, we hope to make a difference and enhance the social mobility of many young people by funding these aspirations one at a time. It is a small step, but for a rapidly growing country that is as populous as Indonesia, we are hopeful it will be an impactful step.” Continue reading…
